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Silverstone Grand Prix

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

What a race to watch! Sebastian Vettel just blew the field away starting on Pole position and finishing 1st for his 2nd win of the season.

The race was much more interesting down at the back, where two World Champions were fighting it out for the best of the last few places.

The scrap between Lewis Hammilton and Fernando Alonso was great to watch, and it seems the crowd at Silerstone loved it when Lewis outbraked Fernando at Copse Corner. It may go down as the overtaking manoeuvre of the year, but it was one of the best of the race.

There also was one very unusual result as well today. Nelson Piquet Jr *beat* Fernando Alonso.

However one thing for sure is, there is now a fight for the world championship going on between Red Bull and Brawn Grand Prix. That’s good news for F1 fans, as we like to be kept on the edge of our seats, although last year’s finish at Brazil will take a lot of beating.

So in the next 3-4 races I expect the World Championship to be between 3 drivers - Jenson Button, Sebastian Vettel and Rubens Barrichello. However I do expect someone to get in the show a little, and that is Mark Webber.

Silverstone memories.

Finally, is it Silverstone’s final F1 race?

Domington park may not be ready in time, and Bernie in the past has stated there will be no British Grand Prix in 2010 if Domington Park isn’t ready. However both Bernie and Max have now both stated there will be a British Grand Prix in 2010. Where it will be, is yet to be decided, maybe we will know in a few weeks time.

However I’ve been to a few Grand Prix’s in the last few years, I was at Silverwind in 2005. Here is a pick of a few memories I’ve found.

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - A lot of support for Jenson Button, I bet there was more flags out today.

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - A lot of support for Jenson Button, I bet there was more flags out today.

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - David Coulthard's Red Bull car being towed back to the pits during a practice session.

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - David Coulthard's Red Bull car being towed back to the pits during a practice session.

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - David Coulthard taking time out to sign autographs with the fans.

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - David Coulthard taking time out to sign autographs with the fans.

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - Give's you wings! Well today, they did have wings by finishing 1st and 2nd.

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - Give's you wings! Well today, they did have wings by finishing 1st and 2nd.

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - Bring back Eddie Jordan. Who would have expected Eddie Jordan to be a F1 pundit for the BBC?

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - Bring back Eddie Jordan. Who would have expected Eddie Jordan to be a F1 pundit for the BBC?

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - Jenson Button in his Honda in 2005, taken at Luffield during the race.

British Grand Prix - Silverstone - 2005 - Jenson Button in his Honda in 2005, taken at Luffield during the race.

See you all in 3 weeks time for the German Grand Prix.

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Spanish Grand Prix

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

What another great race, and being a Jenson Button supporter I was delighted to see him win again!

Many of us, me including was expecting Sebastian Vettel to beat the Brawns today. Even the BBC pundits, Eddie Jordan and David Coulthard predicted Sebastian Vettel to win.

They, like myself got it wrong, but I thought it would be interesting to see who in the FF1GP tried to predict the race result. For this week, we had 874 out of a possible 1393 predictions, so good on you all for entering your predictions for those extra little points.

Let’s take a look at Sebastian Vettel. Out of the 1393 FF1GP teams, 225 had selected Sebastian for their teams. The ones who did their predictions for this race, 26 teams believed he would come 1st, 50 in 2nd place and 44 in 3rd place, 15 in 4th place and 10 in 5th place. One team predicted him to come in 11th!

Considering you can only put in your predictions before qualifying starts, it looks like you all got a good judgement on where Sebastian Vettel will finish.

If you are all interested in any more stats, just drop me a line at admin@ff1gp.com and I’ll be happy to do another post on them.

Ferrari - you got to ask, what is going on in that garage? You have to feel sorry for Massa who was fighting Vettel all the way to keep in behind, only to told you don’t have enough fuel to reach the end of the race, so please drive SLOWLY!

You would think with these state of the art fuel rigs would be able to deliver the precise amount of into a F1 car?!

Well I guess not, but if Ferrari need to get rid of those fuel rigs, I know of a petrol station close to me that would welcome a faster petrol pump! The other day it took one of their pumps took 5 minutes to put 42 litres into my car, compare that with F1 fuel pump which I would reckon it would take 4-5 seconds!

Next race is in Monaco, where I don’t expect any of the teams to run KERS around the tight street circuit. Although if anyone does use KERS, there won’t be many places to use it. The Tunnel, the Start Finish straight and between turns 1 and 3 are the places to me to use it, although anyone who does use it, will have to have balls of steel.

See you all in 2 weeks time!

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FF1GP Race weekend in Bahrain

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Yet another fantastic race in Bahrain. This race was a pure race as well. No safety cars, no rain, and no stupid rows about holes and planes on the back of cars either.

It looks like the F1 results are final, so the FF1GP Bahrain results are final as well.

Also a note about the Want to loose league. Seems I set the sorting order wrong at the begining of the season. It’s now fixed, big thanks to Jante the Team manager of Sunday Drivers Going Round in Circles for spotting the errror.

When I heard the Toyota’s was on the front row of the grid, I was expecting them to be fueled light. I was right there, but I didn’t expect Sebastian Vettel to be fueled quite so heavy, but it did make me think that he could win the race. In the end he came in 2nd, but I do believe he could had challenged Jenson for the lead. Maybe in the future we will see a Button Vs Vettel duel on the racetrack, and I bet it will be one duel to watch.

Also Kimi finally brought in some points for Ferrari, while Massa’s race was totally ruined by the lack of a working KER’s. This season is still a bad start for Ferrari, but I’m certainly not writing off Ferrari yet. Expect them to be strong in Spain next.

The next race is in 2 weeks time, in Spain, where I expect the order to be shuffled up, since a lot of the teams will be bringing in updates to their cars. That circuit should suit the KER’s cars as well, I’m sure there will be plenty of drivers pressing the button on the main straight. Since I am a Jenson Button supporter, I just hope that button won’t be label “Pass Button”.

However there is the FIA hearing on McLaren telling porky pies to the stewards in Australia. It seems clear the McLaren have already practically pleaded guilty, so it just seems to be a case of what the punishment will be. Whatever happens, it will probably have some effect on future FF1GP result, and I will post up the news on either Wednesday 29th April or Thursday.

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China FF1GP weekend.

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

With the diffuser row settled, it was back to the racing. The weekend in China belongs to Sebastian Vettel, who took pole position, and then he followed it well deserved race victory, the first for Red Bull.

He also has the honour of being the only driver to score first race wins for both Red Bull and Toro Rosso, a record that will be very hard to beat. Perhaps he should join Force India, and get their first win as well!

As for the other teams, well they all did well to stay on the track. Grand Prix TV on Twitter did try to run a sweepstake on Massa oh how many times he would spin. They should have gone for Lewis Hamilton, as I’m sure he spun the most today in the wet.

The Fantasy Formula 1 Grand Prix results are now up, and they are final for a change. I didn’t do too well this week, got most of my predictions wrong. I had Brawn for 1st and Sebastian Vettel for 4th, and I lost out when Adrian Sutil lost it with 6 laps to go. That accident looks a lot worse than it did, glad to hear he is ok, shame they didn’t pick up 2 points.

The next race is less than a week away in Bahrain - see you there.

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Australia and Malaysia FF1GP results are now final

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

The diffuser appeal has been rejected in Paris, so the Australia and Malaysia FF1GP results are now final, and unchanged.

I was expecting the diffuser appeal to be rejected, as it would have called into question the stewards and the FIA. Lets hope the rest of this years Championship is settled on the race track, and kept out of that office in Paris!

Next race is in China.

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Malaysia Grand Prix weekend

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Well, I went on a trip to Cornwall this weekend. When I passed the “Welcome to Cornwall” sign on the A30, well it just decided to tip down with rain. The rest of the weekend was quite hot and at one point, I did wonder where the rain went.

Well I can tell you where this rain went, it made it’s way to Malaysia in time for the Grand Prix!

It’s great to see Jenson Button winning again, even if the race didn’t complete to even half race distance. Much that I like seeing cars sliding and spinning off, it was the right decision to call off the rest of the race.

Now to the important bit, the race points. In the FIA rules it says only half points are awarded to the teams and drivers if they do not complete 75% of the race distance.

The FF1GP rules does not have this clause in them, except maybe this grey area of “It is the same scoring system as used by the Formula 1 championships, as set in 2009″ which could apply, but my intention has always been to give 10 points to the winner regardless.

The 2010 FF1GP rules will have a clause in them that covers the 75% race distance rule, but for all remaining 2009 races full race points will be awarded to all FF1GP teams and drivers.

So 10 points have been awarded to teams with either Jenson button or Brawn owners, instead of 5 points.

If you don’t agree with this FF1GP ruling, you can send an email to admin@ff1gp.com and you don’t need to send a €150,000 protest fee.

Next race is in China. Hopefully a simpler race, but knowing F1, it wont be.

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Revised Australian FF1GP results

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Well this isn’t quite the start we wanted to the 2009 F1 season. More controversy!

After Jarno Trulli got penalised very harshly in the Australian Grand Prix for overtaking during a safety care period, his 3rd place win has been restored.

However, new evidence came to light to the stewards, that Lewis “deliberately mislead” the stewards at the hearing in Australia. I’ll leave you to judge for yourself, but the end result was Lewis has been disqualified, and Jarno’s 3rd place has been reinstated.

The FF1GP results for Austalia have been updated, if you have either McLaren or Lewis Hamlilton you will be awarded -5 points.

However the results are still provisional, as the diffuser appleal due to be heard on the 14th of April could change things again.

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Australian FF1GP weekend

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

14:03 Qualifying day - Well the 1st Grand Prix weekend has been full of controversy, and we have not even got to the actual race!

First things, is the diffusers on the Brawn’s, Williams and Toyota’s cars. 3 of the teams lodged a protest about the design, saying the designs wasn’t legal.

The stewards threw the protests out, saying the diffusers are legal. However, the teams making a protest have appealed. The appeal will be heard in Paris in about 2 week’s time on the April 14th.

This does have an effect on the results for the 1st two rounds of the 2009 FF1GP seasons. It means the results will be provisional. What happens in 2 weeks time is anyone’s guess.

Also the 2 Toyotas have been thrown out of Qualifying for having excessively flexible wings. As far as FF1GP is concerned, their starting positions will be taken from their original qualifying positions of 6th and 8th, however they will not be awarded any Qualifying points.

More news will follow after the race. The 1st round of FF1GP results is expected to be up late in the afternoon on Sunday (UK time)

15:30 Race Day - Well what a race! Jenson Button and Brawn wins the Australian Grand Prix! If you was up at 6am this morning like me, then I bet you was on the edge of your seat.

However there was some more controversy with Toyota. Jarno Trulli overtook Lewis Hamilton when the safety car was out. The stewards investigated the incident, and gave Jarno a 25 second penalty, which dropped him down to 12th.

Finally a special mention goes to Sebastien Buemi who started 13th, and drove smoothly and confidently to finish 7th… and that means (Amusingly) that Toro Rosso have beaten Red bull yet again, although a lot of that could be blamed on Sebastian Vettel!

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The 2009 FF1GP season is now open

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Welcome to the 2009 Fantasy Formula 1 Grand Prix Season. Back a little later than planned mainly due to Honda taking their time to sell the team to Ross Brawn.

I am please to see Honda surviving on in the new name of Brawn GP. And if you want to have the Brawn GP team in your FF1GP team, you can at a nice low figure of 4million!

The rules for Fantasy Formula 1 have not changed much this year. The only major change is the budget for teams, which has dropped from 34 million to 32 million - yes even FF1GP is not immune from the credit crunch.

Some of the regular visitors will have spotted the site has had a little makeover for 2009. I hope you like the changes. The biggest change is the front page, which will have the latest news from FF1GP and also it has the latest news from a selection of F1 news sites. At the moment only ITV-F1 and BBC are shown, but it is planned to allow you to customise the news feed so you can view the latest news from your favourite F1 news sites.

Also the code is now running within my own new PHP5 framework. As the season goes along, the older code will be migrated to match the code style and standards. It is the goal of this update to allow you to look at previous seasons.

Enjoy the FF1GP 2009 season!

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The 2008 FF1GP season comes to a close

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

Well who will remember a finish to the F1 season, where the world championship was decided in the final corner. Hamilton was in 6th approaching the final corner until he passed Glock who was running 4th place on the wrong tyres.

Much respect goes to Massa, who I say deserved the World Championship title just as equally as Hamilton. He was obviously gutted to lose the title like this, but he looked up and took it very well, like a true sportsman.

The final race brings a close to the 2008 FF1GP season, which has been enjoyable as ever. FF1GP will be back in 2009, with I hope few changes. I’ve been working on the new code for a few years now, most of the work has been on the framework that will be used to run the FF1GP site, but due to changing requirements, it has been delayed as a result.

One feature that is likely to be given a rest for the 2008 FF1GP season is the “Want to lose” rules. There has always been a few issues with the rules for that, so rather than scrap it completely, it will be given a rest. However the final decision won’t be decided until at least February.

The first race of 2009 is on 29th March. The FF1GP website for 2009 will be online for entries at the beginning of March 2009.

See you all next year!

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